![]() ![]() My personal choices are but a few of the options available to you and as with any accessory choice, wants, needs and even aesthetics will play their role in your decision. Some muzzle brakes even act as connection points for suppressors utilizing threads or QD ( Quick Disconnect) mounts towards the rear of the brake. Adding diamond-shaped teeth on the front of the brake makes it a defensive weapon for less-than-lethal muzzle strikes during hand-to-hand combat using the rifle. Simple modifications like deleting the port(s) along the bottom of the muzzle brake helps reduce your dust signature while in the prone shooting position. Today’s muzzle brakes are multifaceted and give the shooter more options besides their intended purpose. ![]() I know someone is working on building a better mousetrap as we speak.Īs with everything in the shooting world the muzzle brake has continued to evolve into something much more than what it was originally designed to do. Up until recently it’s been very hard to combine the two into one effective unit and to the best of my knowledge Precision Armament EFAB Hybrid Muzzle Brake has come closest to creating the combo holy grail with a few others following close behind. Of course, you cannot possibly hide all of the light generated from discharging a firearm with the possible exception of using a suppressor. A flash hider helps dissipate the flash from the propellant gases so as to not blind the shooter in low light or total darkness and also serves to preserve a shooter’s position or location due to a large flash signature. AR Muzzle Brakes vs Flash HidersĪlthough I’m not covering flash hiders in this Best-Of, I would like to distinguish the difference between the two. in Harrison Township, Michigan ( ) will use a process called Electrical Discharge Machining to place the vent holes directly into the barrel without damage to the metal and they do handguns, pistols, and rifles. If your firearm is devoid of this feature and you wish to add it, companies like Mag-na-port International Inc. The S&W 460XVR revolvers muzzle brake is manufactured into the barrel a feature I like. If it were not for its very effective muzzle brake, shooting all the factory ammunition and hand loads for that article would have been very unpleasant for me. This simple tech is especially useful for the muzzle control of larger caliber revolvers such as the Smith & Wesson 460XVR which shoots the potent. ![]() We owe this simple technology to its pioneering use on artillery pieces, over time it has been scaled down and used on all manner of firearms where recoil management and not meaning to shoot down aircraft was a concern. I haven't done a full test as above.This action helps the shooter keep the muzzle down and rounds on target. Pretty much everything but a suppressor seems to flash a bit under image intensifiers, but. * Though, this was pre-night vision so there's that to think about. 800 yard precision rifles.Īnd for real flash suppression. ![]() Some people running them on precision rifles. I have not seen them much in person, but the current crop of SF flash hiders (or something different here to be confusing) seem very nice. your friends may hate you if on line at the range. Others are similar like the SF brakes here or here, I am told. Seems to have had no impact on accuracy, side vents only so no dust kicking up, or distorted view, and zero flash on the darkest night. So, the flash hider IS doing a lot of work here. Carbines are a softball, rifles (20" 5.56 I mean now) baseball sized or a bit smaller. Okay for not blinding the shooter, but some visible flame.Įven with good, flash suppressing powder, mil-acquired ammo, bare muzzles still have a fireball. Older designs, like the M14, were pretty mediocre. So small, we were all pretty sure they wouldn't give you away to downrange bad guys in real life unless very unlucky and fighting in caves, or something.* The worst most did, like some Smith brakes and I think the Daewoo, were tiny, tiny cartoonish licks of flame out the ports. Same for similar designs in other guns like the G3 birdcage looking thing. The three prong early AR, and the later AR18 one, both worked as well as the A2 flash hider. It was even ban period, so we had weird devices and bare muzzles.ĭiscounting the commercial spec ammo fireballs (we did some ammo trading to get solid results) almost all worked fine. Long, long ago, when no one brought an RDS'd gun to class, the instructor had a little experiment at the end of the night shooting time, and we each, in turn, fired our guns while the others watched, to see how various muzzle devices worked. ![]()
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